Biography

Thomas P. Joyce was named president and chief nuclear officer of PSEG Nuclear (Nuclear), in October 2008. He had been senior vice president – operations of Salem/Hope Creek for Nuclear, since June 2007.  Mr. Joyce was also vice president – Salem, since January 2007, and previously assumed the role of PSEG Nuclear’s site vice president as part of the Nuclear Operating Services Agreement between PSEG and Exelon Corporation.

Mr. Joyce has more than 34 years of experience in commercial nuclear power operations, and led Salem through two successful reactor vessel head replacement outages. Salem Unit 1 completed its outage for the lowest station dose, while capturing the world record for shortest head replacement outage.

Prior to coming to PSEG Mr. Joyce was site vice president at Exelon Nuclear’s Braidwood Station. During his tenure the station achieved overall performance improvements and retained their excellent INPO rating.  The plant completed a refueling in 15 days, 14 hours – setting a record for outage efficiency among U.S. pressurized water reactors.  Before serving at Braidwood he held leadership positions at Exelon’s Byron, Dresden, and Zion Stations, and in the corporate offices of both Exelon Corporation and Exelon Nuclear.

Mr. Joyce holds a Bachelor of Science degree in nuclear engineering from the University of Missouri at Rolla, and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Keller Graduate School of Management.  While at Byron, he earned his senior reactor operation (SRO) license.